Word: resister
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...multi-faceted violence that participants at last night's event sought to resist does not always prevail upon women. The candlelight vigil was intended to liberate the long-silenced victims of sexual abuse and violence. In addition, participants--both men and women--were encouraged to take an aggressive stance against the violence that has pervaded our society. Littleton, Colo. Enough said...
...allowed to admit it: awards shows are fun to watch. The glittering celebrities, the throng of screaming devotees and the anticipation and anxiety leading up to the completion of the phrase "And the winner is..." are too hard to resist...
...STARTED LIKE MOST JOURNEYS DO, full of idealistic hopes and dreams. MTV was having a contest --who would become the next Jesse Camp? Why not us? Why not me and my associates, Josh Simon and Aaron Cohen? Who could resist the charms of three scrawny Jewish kids moonlighting as veejays? Or, at the least, one scrawny Jewish kid. We would soon find out. Here is our story...
...Academy, says the examiners who came to the school "didn't have a clue," and administered the test during children's nap time. She also suspects the State Department of Education, which commissioned the study, may have wanted vouchers to come off badly because its bureaucratic inertia makes it resist systemic reforms like vouchers. Even the study's authors concede their results don't necessarily discredit vouchers. They note that the small edge displayed by voucher students in two of the six test areas could grow over time to a more significant advantage. And they say the Hope academies' weak...
...During this entire project, it was critically important to me not to mess with Tommy, not to turn it into something else but to fulfill it...occasionally, of course, we get audience members who resist any changes. There are people who really feel like they own this, that this has been part of them, and they don't want anything to change...